M F Hussain -----India's Guilt

I have always believed that our nation is being held to ransom increasingly by the incarnataion of our 'emancipated media' . Anybody from the 90's and 80's would remember that at that doordarshan was the only channel availaible,the media of our times was not availaible, or rather was lying in the mind of some willing businessmen thinking on how to leverage his thoughts in a cost effective manner. The Media went all ballistic in mourning the death of a great painter, a great artist, a treasure trove of Modern Indian Art and the eloquent praise transcended from necessary to grandiloquent excess. Praising a great painter is one thing but to take it to stratospheric levels the eyeball seeking media was keeping in tune with the excessive thematic and materialistic evolution of India post the 90's. I am not going into the merits and demerits of Hussain but he did not turn out to be an exact secular doyen by playing in the hand of the hate brigade. The citizenship of Qatar was probably an exercise in studying the after effects of senility. You don't make a deal with the Devil for making a point with a sane though flawed mind. Flaws are acceptable and universal, bigotry and fanaticism are not. Qatar, a typically fanatic Islamic nation was the last place a supposedly secular and broadminded Hussain should have sought refuge in. Maybe we were wrong in hounding Hussain, but he played into the very hands of the people he was opposing.It raises a question on the selective secularity that maybe all Indians practice. This closet conformance to certain ideologies while vehemently denying it in public has been the norm of our practical brigade. The norm for our media should have been to practice restraint and critically evaluate his death and let the debate be open. Not "Newshourly" or "Stopping the buck" , but critically , analytically and bias free.